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[fajrdrako]

From thefridayfive:

1. Are you related to anyone famous or do you have any famous friends? If so, who?

I'm related to a few people who are famous historically - Bishop Ridley, the Protestant martyr in Queen Mary's time; Black Peter Grant; Herbert Hoover. And yes, I have some famous friends, but I think it would be crass to talk about them as if I were name-dropping.

2. Do you have any autographs or memorabilia?

Yes. The autographs I value are all of authors or artists: Dorothy Dunnett, Lois McMaster Bujold, Theodore Sturgeon, Guy Gavriel Kay, Neil Gaiman, Frank Miller, Jo Beverley, Charles Vess, Mike Kaluta, Stan Lee, Barry Windsor-Smith. I also have a few autographs from TV stars: Patrick Stewart, Brent Spiner, Adrian Paul, Michael Rosenbaum. They're sort of by accident.

3. If you could meet any 3 celebrities who would they be?

Currently? Picking ones I've never met: Karin Lowachee, Megan Whelan Turner, and Lois McMaster Bujold. Actors? John Barrowman, Christopher Eccleston, David Tennant. Artists: Tim Sale, Rosemary Spragg, John Romita Jr.

4. What would you want to be famous for doing?

Writing.

5. Who's the most annoying celebrity?

How should I know? If they're annoying, I ignore them. I've no idea who is most annoying. Okay, for the sake of giving an answer, I'll say Mel Gibson, because of his homophobia, his anti-semitism, his drunkenness, and his religion-driven judgments. These qualities are annoying. And back when he played Tim or Mad Max, he was so damn cute!

Comments

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

Crime against truth - rewriting the book to make it worse. Hah!

Apparently, it was done for reasons of length, he says, but (I suspect) also to give Isabella more plot-room and up the sex'n'violence. But it's dreadful. The poor dears have done nothing to deserve it. And I hate his depiction of the murderers deliberately "not finishing" the job, to leave him suffering...
However much any novelist has misrepresented and defamed him, I think it's vile to gloat over him suffering...

Yes - the icon's so cute! They're instantly recognisable!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

All of the fictional calumnies you've found libelling Conrad are atrocious but I always think Shelby is the worst - if only because he should have known better.

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

It's certainly the one that's in the worst possible taste: not only does it give us a 'Nosferatu look-alike' Conrad, but also the explicit, sadistic sex. I wish some would allow real-life characters to preserve their dignity, when we have absolutely no evidence whatsoever on their most intimate habits.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

If and when I write about it, I promise to give him dignity.

Should be easy, actually, since he seems to me to be so cooperative in that regard - typifying the most civilized and cultured men of his century and time.

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

If and when I write about it, I promise to give him dignity.

Should be easy, actually, since he seems to me to be so cooperative in that regard - typifying the most civilized and cultured men of his century and time.

Yes: he's always struck me as very regal - while still very lively, and probably excellent company. Intelligent, well-educated, cosmopolitan.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

That's pretty much how I see him too, though I'd add a sense of humour.

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

That's part and parcel of "lively". I think he must have been a fun person to have around: vital, positive,... sparkling, really. And being good-looking doesn't hurt, either.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I think he must have been a fun person to have around: vital, positive

All of which makes him very good King material.

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

I tend to think of him as the sort who was as much fun springing about on the dance-floor to an estampida as he was lethal charging into battle with a lance, and a clever bargainer in political negotiations.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

It's all part of the physical strength and stamina which it is so very clear that he had in spades.

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

Yes! And add to that the intelligence and culture... Definitely someone to treasure, on all counts!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

So we do...